
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 9.
Source: Redemption in Indigo (2010), Chapter 1 “Ansige is Delayed on the Road to Makendha” (p. 10)
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 9.
Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 8 (p. 124).
Vol. II, Ch. XX, p. 437.
(Buch II) (1893)
As quoted in The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini (1993) by Ruth Brandon, p. 153
Context: I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place some one is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death. That's what attracts us to the man who paints the flagstaff on the tall building, or to the 'human fly' who scales the walls of the same building.
Source: Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (2008), Chapter 17 (p. 200)
“Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him.”
I, q. 111, art. 1, ad 3
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)
Interview in the Guardian http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/profile/story/0,11109,1092253,00.html
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Prophet
Context: It was a rude gross error, that of counting the Great Man a god. Yet let us say that it is at all times difficult to know what he is, or how to account of him and receive him!